{"id":567120,"date":"2026-03-28T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567120\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:02:08","slug":"rhoslc-star-mary-cosby-questioned-by-police-about-sons-alleged-violence-weeks-before-his-death-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567120\/","title":{"rendered":"‘RHOSLC’ star Mary Cosby questioned by police about son’s alleged violence weeks before his death: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mary Cosby was questioned by authorities about her son Robert Cosby Jr.\u2019s alleged domestic violence incident just weeks before his death.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to TMZ<\/a>, a Salt Lake City Police report showed that the \u201cReal Housewives of Salt Lake City\u201d star spoke with the police on Jan. 9, 2026, about Robert Jr. and his ex-wife\u00a0Alexiana Smokoff\u2019s relationship.<\/p>\n

The reality star told officers she didn\u2019t see her late son and his wife fight much. Cosby acknowledged that the pair got into verbal arguments, but said she was not privy to any physical interactions.<\/p>\n

Authorities say the Church leader denied her son was violent and shared that she did not raise him that way.<\/p>\n

Mary Cosby (pictured here on Season 22 of \u201cWWHL\u201d) was questioned by the police about her late son Robert Cosby Jr.\u2019s alleged domestic violence. Charles Sykes\/Bravo via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Authorities were questioning the TV personality about an alleged DV incident between Robert Jr. and his ex-wife,\u00a0Alexiana Smokoff (pictured here). BRAVO<\/p>\n

Cosby claimed she did not see any injuries on either party while they were under her roof. However, one time Robert Jr. and another person jumped off a balcony while high.<\/p>\n

However, Smokoff had called law enforcement on Nov. 23, 2025, to report an alleged domestic violence incident with Robert Jr. that occurred in May 2024.<\/p>\n

Smokoff claimed that Robert Jr., who was incarcerated at the time of the report, became enraged after she threw his drugs in the toilet six months earlier \u201cbecause she was tired of his drug use.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the court documents, the incident allegedly took place at Cosby\u2019s Utah home. <\/p>\n

The reality star (pictured here with Robert Jr.) told officers she didn\u2019t see her son and his wife fight much. Instagram\/mary_m_cosby<\/p>\n

However, Smokoff called law enforcement on Nov. 23, 2025, to report an alleged domestic violence incident that occurred with Robert Jr. (pictured here) in 2024, Instagram\/illboybubs<\/p>\n

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Per the outlet, Police also spoke with Robert Jr. while he was behind bars. He admitted to being on fentanyl at the time of the alleged 2024 incident and did not remember everything.<\/p>\n

Robert Jr. also told police that he did confess to his mom that he was physical with his then-wife. He said he thought he was in \u201cpsychosis\u201d for a while because he was \u201cacting erratic and irrational.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smokoff\u00a0filed for divorce<\/a>\u00a0in November 2025 following three years of marriage. The exes secretly tied the knot at a Utah courthouse in August 2022.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0divorce was finalized<\/a>\u00a0in January. <\/p>\n

Smokoff told the cops that Robert Jr. (pictured here in an IG snap) became enraged after she threw his drugs in the toilet \u201cbecause she was tired of his drug use.\u201d Bravo<\/p>\n

Robert Jr. (pictured here in a shot with his mom) admitted to police that he was on fentanyl at the time of the alleged 2024 incident and did not remember everything. Bravo<\/p>\n

In the the weeks leading up to Robert Jr.\u2019s tragic death, the young adult\u00a0was charged with domestic violence<\/a>\u00a0and had a warrant out for his arrest.<\/p>\n

Robert Jr. previously spent two months behind bars for violating a pretrial protective order against Smokoff. <\/p>\n

As part of his Feb. 3 release, he was ordered to complete 75 hours of community service and complete substance abuse and anger management classes during his 24 months of probation.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old, who had been open about his drug issues on the Bravo reality show, was then charged with felony aggravated assault and felony assault on Feb. 5, just two days after he was let out.<\/p>\n

Robert Jr. was found dead on Feb. 23 after officers \u201cresponded to an\u00a0overdose call<\/a>\u00a0that turned into a death investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Cosby was questioned by authorities about her son Robert Cosby Jr.\u2019s alleged domestic violence incident just weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,13163,5783,362,27846,36763,75,79427,4535,5020,109774,348],"class_list":["post-567120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-news","tag-domestic-violence","tag-drug-overdoses","tag-entertainment","tag-mary-cosby","tag-parents","tag-real-housewives","tag-real-housewives-of-salt-lake-city","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}